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<p>Is there any serious suggestion that it’s better for a college’s academic level to choose the lowest-scoring applicants rather than the highest-scoring applicants? It’s instructive to compare high school grades to SAT scores as a criterion for college entrance (and thus as a proxy for college academic quality). High grade averages in high school classes are also more readily obtained by richer rather than poorer families, </p>
<p>[Making</a> the grade: the SAT versus the GPA](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/29/ED141825.DTL]Making”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/29/ED141825.DTL) </p>
<p>but there doesn’t seem to be any national advocacy group posting a website advocating that high schools abolish course grades.</p>